Interesting Letter

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Here is a letter from Samuel B. Morse to James Garfield on the importance of the telegraph in promoting world peace.

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/garfield-correspondence/1870-1872/mss219560043/mss219560043-564/

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Thanks for sharing this letter! (You’ve reminded me to share two interesting letters to Garfield I came across recently. I’m really enjoying working on the Garfield Campaign - he has received letters from anybody who was anybody at that time, plus ordinary people asking for his help or advice. What a shame he was lost to the country so soon!

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I agree. He was a liberal who supported equal rights and Civil Rights and would have been a great President. What section are you working in? I’m in March-April 1872.

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Interesting. Thanks for pointing this letter out.

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He has beautiful handwriting!

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Interesting Letter from Vice President Schuyler Colfax to James Garfield decrying claims of corruption politicians have to deal with. It’s the top letter on the page.

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/garfield-correspondence/1870-1872/mss219560046/mss219560046-273/

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Interesting letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to James Garfield mentioning the Medical Museum on 10th St. which was at Ford’s Theater which by that time was not a theater but a government building. I volunteer there so I found this interesting.

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/garfield-correspondence/1870-1872/mss219560047/mss219560047-198/

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